When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
AKBAR GANJIRevolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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We should put away the militaristic outlook.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.
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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal – everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions.
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